Business Development Manager

An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team and play a key role within the Client Strategy function.

This London-based Business Development Manager position reports to the VP, Business Development and is ideally suited to an ambitious professional with around 4 years of relevant experience who is looking to accelerate their development. The role provides an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and gain valuable experience to support future progression and career growth.

The Company

mediasense is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. We help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale. Our ambition is to define and own an entirely new category – recognized as the world’s most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor. We do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect. Because progress doesn’t happen in isolation, it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust. That’s what we enable. That’s what we stand for. That’s Unified Marketing Intelligence.

mediasense is designed around how we help marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), governance and controls (Assurance), and measurement and effectiveness (Science). We have the proven ability to effectively support large, complex organizations and deliver multiple projects simultaneously. As evidenced through our strong track record with clients, we pride ourselves on the consistent high quality of service delivery and the ability to accelerate transformation and growth.

• mediasense has over 300 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi.
• For more information, visit www.media-sense.com

What We Offer

At mediasense, we believe great work happens when people feel supported, empowered, and connected. Alongside some of our benefits, we invest heavily in wellbeing, flexibility, learning, and creating a genuinely inclusive workplace where people can thrive.

Flexibility & Time Away:

Hybrid Working Model

Work from Anywhere in the World- for up to 4 weeks per year

28 days' Annual Leave + Bank Holidays, with additional leave awarded through length of service

Birthday Day Off + Voucher

Option to Purchase up to 10 Additional days of Annual Leave (per year)

Enhanced Parental Leave Policies

Financial Benefits:

Bonus Schemes- Discretionary Bonus, New Business & Employee Referral

Pension Scheme

Group Life Insurance

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to Work Scheme

Tech & Lifestyle Savings Scheme

Length of Service Awards

Health & Wellbeing:

Private Healthcare

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Eye Care Support- including contributions towards glasses for VDU users

Mental Health First Aiders & Wellbeing Initiatives

Learning & Development:

Ongoing Learning & Development Opportunities

Access to Internal & External Training

Career Development Support & Mentoring

Regular Knowledge-sharing Sessions & Industry events / Lunch & Learns

Mentorship & Buddy Systems

Office & Social Perks:

Free Gym Membership at FORA & Wellbeing Classes

Complimentary Events- such as professional headshots, cookery classes and cocktail-making workshops, book clubs etc

Dog-Friendly Office

Free Fruit, Snacks and Refreshments

Regular Complimentary Breakfasts, Lunches and Treats

Summer & Winter Celebrations, plus frequent Team Socials & biweekly Thursday office socials

Access to Building-Wide Discounts

Community & Culture:

We place a strong emphasis on community, inclusion and belonging through a range of employee-led initiatives, social events & support networks.

Sense of Balance Group – championing gender equality, parenting & caregiving support

Neurodiversity (ND Sense) Network : raising awareness & supporting neurodivergent colleagues

Pride Network : promoting LGBTQ+ inclusion and allyship

Mental Health & Wellbeing Community : supporting positive wellbeing conversations and initiatives and championing diversity events

Charity & Community Group : driving volunteering, fundraising & social impact opportunities

The Role

The successful candidate will be supporting the VP & BD on EMEA & global new business opportunities- RFP’s, RFI’s, growth marketing, prospecting and events.

The role itself will involve a range of activities including:

Manage and Coordinate RFI/RFP & Pitch Processes - developing internal briefings, gathering inputs from across the business and contributing to compelling, high-quality proposal responses and presentations.

Lead Prospect & Market Research- monitoring industry developments, client activity and market trends to identify and prioritise new business opportunities and build targeted prospect lists.

Own & Continuously Improve the New Business Collateral Library- ensuring pitch decks, case studies, credentials and sales materials are current, easily accessible and effectively communicate our proposition and capabilities.

Partner Closely with Marketing to Turn Activity into Commercial Opportunity- supporting events, roundtables, campaigns and other growth initiatives, and ensuring effective prospect targeting and follow-up.

Manage Day to Day Use & Quality of the CRM- ensuring opportunities, contacts and activity are accurately captured, supporting internal users and driving consistent CRM adoption.

Track, Analyse & Report on Growth Performance- including pipeline, lead progression, conversion and marketing effectiveness, translating data into clear insights and recommended actions.

Support Priority Account & Opportunity Planning- helping identify routes to market, key stakeholders, relevant propositions and next steps across target organisations.

Use AI & Emerging Technology to Improve Business Development Effectiveness- supporting faster research, stronger content development and more efficient reuse of knowledge across pitches and proposals.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will have the following:

4+ years’ experience in a B2B business development, growth or marketing role, ideally within professional services, consulting, media, marketing or a similar environment

Proven experience supporting and coordinating new business opportunities, pitches, proposals and/or RFP processes

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop high-quality client-facing content, presentations and proposals

Strong relationship-building skills and confidence working with senior internal and external stakeholders

Excellent project management and organisational skills, with a track record of managing multiple priorities and deadlines independently

Experience using CRM platforms, ideally HubSpot, to manage opportunities, pipeline data and reporting

Strong proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel, with the ability to produce polished presentations

An analytical mindset, with the ability to interpret pipeline, marketing and market data and translate it into actionable commercial insight

A proactive, solutions-focused approach, with the confidence to take ownership rather than wait for direction

Experience using AI and automation tools to support research, content development or business development workflows would be advantageous

Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and responding to changing business priorities

An understanding of, or strong interest in, the media, marketing and advertising ecosystem would be beneficial

Every application is reviewed by a human on our team (not AI), so it may take us a bit of time to get through them. Because of the large number of applications we receive, we’re not always able to reply to everyone in